dirty realism
Britishnoun
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The frank jocularity of the wisecracks bumps up against rogue jolts of cutesiness and a slightly dirty realism, familiar from Sundance dramedies.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 5, 2018
That more or less sums up the aesthetic of “Preacher,” which packs apocalypse, horror, religion, dirty realism and dime-store westerns into its glass jar, then sets the whole bloody mixture on purée.
From New York Times • May 20, 2016
His art shares the dirty realism of the novelists Flaubert and Zola.
From The Guardian • May 22, 2015
His stories oscillate between the biting and absurd writing of George Saunders and the dirty realism of Tobias Wolff.
From Washington Post
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